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  2. WOMEN IN WAR WORK

    LONDON, Sept. 1.—Dr. Edith Summerskill (Lab. M.P.) has submitted five questions to the Government, and claims that ...

    Article : 327 words
  3. A.R.P. PLAN FOR HOSPITALS

    The Minister for National Emergency Services, Mr. Heffron, estimated yesterday that it would cost New South Wales ...

    Article : 255 words
  4. R.A.F. ATTACKS ON COLOGNE POWER STATIONS

    A strong force of R.A.F. Blenheim bombers flying at times less than 100 feet above the ground, delivered a strong daylight attack last month against two large power stations near Cologne, in Germany. Top: A general view of the attack on the Knapsack Power Station. The plane on the left has dropped its bombs and anti-aircraft fire can be seen ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. COMMUNISTS IN FRANCE

    LONDON, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.).— There are 30,000 Communists in occupied France, of whom 10,000 are interned, according to an ...

    Article : 435 words
  6. UNIONISTS IN CONGRESS

    LONDON, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.).— Addressing the Trade Union Congress at Edinburgh, the chairman, Mr. George Gibson, ...

    Article : 570 words
  7. IRAN PACT SOON

    LONDON, Sept. 1.—An agreement between Britain, Russia, and Iran for the protection of Allied interests in Persia is ...

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  8. FIREFIGHTERS CONFER

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—Standardisation of fire-fighting equipment and methods of checking fires caused by any attack on Australia were ...

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  9. MR. BEVIN'S THREAT

    LONDON, Sept. 1 (A.AP.).— "The Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr. Bevin, whose appeal to women to play ...

    Article : 356 words
  10. OIL IMPORTS IN DRUMS

    The Commonwealth Government has placed orders abroad for a large quantity of petrol in drums, which will be shipped to ...

    Article : 397 words
  11. MORE DAMAGE AT TRIPOLI

    LONDON, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.).— Following Friday night's R.A.F. attack on shipping in Tripoli Harbour, heavy bombers again ...

    Article : 238 words
  12. WAR ECONOMY IN U.S.A.

    NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—With the coming into force to-day of Government orders fixing steel priorities and time of sale, it ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. NEED FOR TANKS AND PLANES

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—Lieutenant-General Sir Iven Mackay, Commander-in-Chief of Australia's Home Forces, arrived in Melbourne from ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. CHEAPER FISH URGED

    Retail Ash merchants decided at a meeting last night to ask the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, to reduce the price of fish. ...

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  15. ARMED STRENGTH OF INDIES

    BATAVIA, Sept. 1 (A.A.P.).— Batavia's commemoration of the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina included the largest parade of ...

    Article : 226 words
  16. MYSTERIOUS BOMBINGS

    LONDON, Sept 1 (A.A.P.).— Mystery planes which bombed the southern outskirts of Tehran may turn out to have been ...

    Article : 320 words
  17. ELIZABETH BAY LIBRARIES

    The City Council yesterday unanimously approved of two lending libraries for the Elizabeth Bay residential area. One is to be at 70 Elizabeth ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. MEN'S ILLNESS ON TRAIN

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—An officer of the Commonwealth Railways Department said to-day that investigations had disclosed that the illness ...

    Article : 103 words
  19. JAPAN "NOT YET PREPARED"

    NEW YORK, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.) —The Tokyo "Hochi," which is reputed to be financed by the Axis, publishes an article which ...

    Article : 240 words
  20. OIL FOR PHILIPPINES

    WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (A.A.P.).— President Roosevelt has revoked for a year the prohibition on foreign registered ships carrying petrol and oil ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. LAND BOOM IN ENGLAND

    LONDON, Sept. 1.—The war has brought a strange reverse process in agricultural economy whereby farms which, before the ...

    Article : 137 words
  22. THE CALL-UP

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 words
  23. NEW MINISTERS TO AUSTRALIA

    CANBERRA, Monday.—The Chinese Legation which will be established by Dr. Hsu Mo in Canberra this month will carry ...

    Article : 180 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 66 words
  25. NAZI CRUELTIES TO FRENCH

    LONDON, Sept. 1 (A.A.P.).— The dreadful treatment the Germans have meted out to French prisoners of war is told ...

    Article : 236 words
  26. WAR COUNCIL'S POWERS

    CANBERRA, Monday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, said to-night that whether the Advisory War Council could be given wider powers was ...

    Article : 113 words
  27. MYSTERY FLIGHT

    NEW YORK, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.).— According to the correspondent of the Associated Press of America at Nome, Alaska, two large Russian seaplanes ...

    Article : 57 words
  28. PERSPECTIVE OF WAR

    LONDON, Sept. 1 (Official Wireless).—The difficulty of getting the happenings of the war into perspective was ...

    Article : 178 words
  29. TWENTY SHARE THREE ROOMS

    At last [?]ght's meeting of Erskineville Council it was stated that 20 people were living in three rooms in a house in King ...

    Article : 153 words
  30. WATERFRONT FIRE IN NEW YORK

    An aerial picture of the big mystery fire which swept the Brooklyn (New York) waterfront on August 1[?]. (Picture by Clipper air mail.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  31. AUSTRALIA MAKES MORTARS

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—Hundreds of three-inch trench mortars are being produced every month in Australia. ...

    Article : 131 words
  32. THE WAR AT SEA

    LONDON, Sept. 1. (A.A.P.).— H.M.S. Zinnia, a corvette of 1,200 tons of the "Flower" class, which was formerly a unit of the Belgian Navy, ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    LONDON, Sept 1.—Tin was quoted to-day at £257 a toll Rybber was quoted at 13 11-16d a [?] Mining quotations:—North Broken Hill, 32 [?] ...

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  34. N.Z. BaL TO PERMIT WOMEN IN COUNCIL

    AUCKLAND, Monday.—A [?] bill to permit the appointment of women to the Legislative Council [?] be introduced by Mrs. Dreaver, who ...

    Article : 36 words
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